LITE 98.7 » american medical association http://lite987.com The Best Variety Of Yesterday And Today Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Doctor Recommends Obese Children Be Taken From Their Parents http://lite987.com/doctor-recommends-obese-children-be-taken-from-their-parents/ http://lite987.com/doctor-recommends-obese-children-be-taken-from-their-parents/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:29:39 +0000 Mark Richards http://lite987.com/?p=15241 As heard on your information update this morning with Jim Rondenelli,  a leading doctor has proposed putting severely obese children in temporary foster homes.

Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston, is advocating the removal of some extremely overweight kids from their home as a last option. In the opinion piece, Ludwig wrote about a 12-year old girl who weighed 400 pounds, and was placed in a foster home because she had developed diabetes, cholesterol problems, high blood pressure and sleep apnea.

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